Mark Browne, a senior research associate at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales told Orb: "Whenever you fractionalize a problem, as with the plastic industry not being held responsible for their particular types of waste, there's capacity for that industry then to blame another.

Fractional ownership provides owners with a certain number of weeks of occupancy during a year, but unlike a timeshare, they enjoy the advantage of property ownership --appreciation and tax deductions, says Sherman Potvin, author of Fractionalize to Maximize.

Fortunately, the Internal Revenue Service has in recent years provided significant guidance on how to fractionalize real estate into the bite-sized interests that fit the needs of sellers seeking to complete like-kind exchanges.

As part of the career pathway work, KCTCS is seeking to develop a feasible way to modularize curricula (and also fractionalize the credit offered) in both bridge and college-level instruction to allow the creation of programs that are responsive to the schedules of working students and the skills needs of employers.

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